Ukraine civilians are being bombed out of their country by a madman. It's the largest refugee crisis since World War II. You can't turn on the news without seeing the atrocities going on there.Which also means, it's here. It's not just there. We have Ukranian people here. Friends, family, people who have friends and family. And what happens there doesn't just stay there. It affects us here. You can try to stay in your bubble and ignore it if you so choose, because that's what people are good at these days, but everyone will be touched in some way or another by what goes on globally.
We also have plenty of our own bad news going on here in the United States besides for what is global adjacent. Covid is still here. People are still getting sick. While Omicron might be a lighter form of it, I'm literally watching on the news right now how there are long term effects of getting any form of Covid that are coming out now.
Then, we have Texas and Florida who are fighting each other for the worst states for the LGBTQia population and those who love them. My husband and son can joke all they want but when I say that these are two of the worst places on the planet, where everything bad happens, I'm not kidding in the least. You couldn't give me a free house in either state. I certainly wouldn't raise a kid in either one.
I'm horrified and disgusted to say that yesterday, the "Don't Say Gay" bill, which prohibits any discussion about sexual orientation or gender identification in the state's primary schools, passed in the Florida legislature, which means it gets to Governor Death-santis's desk, and he's expected to sign it. (He may have already- I don't know) Probably with glee.
And in Texas, there is just an unrelenting assault on trans rights. I personally know parents with gofundme accounts and social media pages dedicated to getting their families out of the state before possibly facing persecution just for living.
This doesn't sound much different to me than having to flee countries for simply being Jewish.
Make no mistake, if you still vote GOP in any election, you're saying you don't give any F's about anyone but yourself. There is no such thing as fiscally conservative when people are fighting for their lives. When kids die from this law being passed, just know, and you've voted GOP anywhere, for any reason, you have their blood on your hands. So if you like to fancy yourself pro-life, just be aware, that won't be the case. Those who are truly pro-life actually care about the lives already in existence. Not just those of the unborn.
I also have to laugh, or cry, about all these people who have been going on and on about how disgusting it was to make kids wear masks all this time. How abusive it was, how unfair it is that they couldn't be a spectator at their kids sporting events, and maskless on top of it, when people are literally fighting for their lives. In Ukraine, in Florida, in Texas. People mocked kids and adults over a thin piece of cloth, they bitched and complained, when others are sleeping on concrete, with only what they could carry, wondering if they'll ever see their spouse or kids again. As their homes, school, livelihoods, friends, and families, have been bombed into oblivion. People bitched about freeing the smiles when others won't or don't have the freedom now to even discuss who they are, or live as whom they are.
Please, with your masks. Seems pretty stupid, the absolute outrage, over masks, when there seems to be much bigger problems in the world. If you think masks were abusive, disgusting, & taking away freedoms, I certainly hope you're never in the position to have to flee a country on a moments notice. Or fear legal retribution and the detonation of your family, just because you support your kid's gender rights.
I read an article this morning about the correlation between teens feeling the pressure for perfection and dying by suicide. One of the things mentioned was teenagers being required to do hundreds of hours of community service, where the author noted, quite sarcastically, that obviously forcing kids to do all that service must produce empathetic adults.
So I wonder, seriously, how DO we produce actual empaths. It seems that's what we're lacking. How did we get here? We have entitled adults care more about kids being freed from masks than we do about kindergartens being bombed. There are parents who care more about a kid possibly reading about rape in a book than someone actually BEING raped. Some people care more about what pronouns people use than how kids are feeling, whether they're suicidal, or whether they're comfortable in their own skin. I don't see how the parenting from humans like this is going to create any wealth of caring or empathy. All I see is people looking for a fight over control- how to control others. I don't see people caring how to best look out for all the greater good, I see people only looking out for themselves and only caring about what affects them.
How do we get adults to take their puritanical blinders off and stop trying to drive us straight into the Handmaid's Tale? What are these people afraid of? Why are we going backwards? I'll tell you one big reason. Because when there is too much progress, white supremacy and bigotry have too much to lose. They're going to hold on with everything they've got.
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